A Chinese icebreaker boat trying to eat through a dense ice block in Antarctica to rescue 74 people trapped on a ship since Christmas Day has had to halt efforts because the ice is too thick.

A US ice-breaker, the Polar Star, is to help two ships stuck in thick ice in Antarctica, after requests from China and Australia.

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star, seen here in 1999, has been sent to help free Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, which are gripped by Antarctic ice.

It may not be the largest or most powerful ice breaker ever to set sail (that record is held by Russia’s nuclear-powered NS Yamal), but America’s Polar Star is easily one of the most badass ...

The upcoming Antarctic trip – called the Deep Freeze mission — will be the first in recent years for a U.S. ice breaker. The Coast Guard has had to lease Swedish and Russian ice breakers.

Jan. 1, 2014 — -- An attempt to rescue dozens of people aboard a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice for over a week is set to begin today. Wind in the area is down to 10 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is sending a heavy icebreaker to help free a Russian ship and a Chinese icebreaker gripped by Antarctic ice, the Coast Guard said on Saturday. The Polar ...

The string of record-breakers could be a fingerprint of climate change. ... It suggested that Antarctic sea ice may have been declining up until the year 1960, when it began increasing.

Love, love, love, love this video. Marine scientist Cassandra Brooks strapped a camera to the front of NSF's icebreaker the Nathaniel B. Palmer as it sailed for two months through the ice-choked Ross ...

John Turner and Josefino Comiso call for a coordinated push to crack the baffling rise and fall of sea ice around Antarctica. So it came as a surprise to scientists when on 1 March 2017, Antarctic ...